History & local legend
Byers Hall on Pittsburgh's Ridge Avenue was originally the Byers-Lyons House, a mansion occupied by iron manufacturer Alexander Byers's family and that of his married daughter. It later became part of the Community College of Allegheny County. Its ghost stories center on a child and her nanny.
In one version, the nanny falls asleep and the child ventures onto a skylight. The glass breaks beneath her. The story then links the nanny's death to her grief over the accident.
Students have reported a woman at the iron railing around the second-floor porch, along with crying and a small girl moving through the building. Some accounts bring the two figures together, describing the child walking hand in hand with her nanny.
